SLSL 'Entropy': Lili Marlene & The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

[jbor]

on 28/1/03 7:23 PM, lorentzen-nicklaus at lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
wrote:

> actually it's LILI MARLEEN: the song's original title is "der wachposten" (the
> sentry). the words are by hans leip, the music by norbert schulze. sung by
> lale andersen the thing was a smash hit in 1943 (the year my mother was born
> in 
> dresden).

Actually, it's more likely a reference to the version in English (titled
'Lili Marlene') sung by Marlene Dietrich, her signature tune in fact, when
she was with the USO entertaining the American and Allied troops in North
Africa and Italy during the war:

http://users.1st.net/dhancock/lili.html

Some info re. 'The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi':

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/sweetheart.html

best